One in every eleven persons born in Mexico has gone to the U.S. The National Review reported that in 2014 $1.87 billion was spent on incarcerating illegal immigrant criminals….Now add hundreds of billions for welfare and remittances! MICHAEL BARGO, Jr…… for the AMERICAN THINKER.COM

Thursday, May 11, 2017

MILITARY MURDER CITIZENS AS MEXICO DRIFTS TOWARDS REVOLUTION

Ten dead in confrontation
between civilians and the military in Puebla, Mexico

By
Alex González
11 May 2017

A violent encounter between the military and alleged oil thieves
left 10 dead and 12 wounded in the central Mexican state of Puebla last
Wednesday. The following day, over 500 people took control of a major highway
to demand the release of 13 individuals detained the previous day.

According to statements by the Secretary of Defense (Sedena), at
approximately 8 p.m. on May 3 a local military unit was alerted to plans to
steal oil from the state-owned oil company Pemex (Petróleos Mexicanos) in the
town of Palmarito, Puebla. When they arrived at the scene, the ministry claims,
the army was attacked by a group using women and children as “human shields.” Sedena
claims another encounter took place at 10 p.m., when five vans drove by a
stationed police car and opened fire against members of the armed forces. The
clash left 10 dead, including six alleged oil thieves and four members of the
military. One woman and one minor were among the dead.

This official story stands in sharp contradiction to the testimony
of local townspeople. A woman designated as spokesperson for the town affirmed
clashes began at around 5:30 p.m. when members of the military shot at peasants
who were running away from a beehive, confusing them forhuachicoleros(the name given to those who illegally
siphon fuel from pipelines).

The military then violently entered Palmerito and opened fire
against the population, while “taking men, women and children” prisoner. Local
townspeople affirm one woman was killed on her way to buy tortillas and three
minors were detained by the authorities.

The following morning, about 500 people blocked a highway between
Puebla and Veracruz in protest against the military assault, carrying signs
reading “Palmerito is in mourning. We want peace and tranquility” and “We want
the people who were taken from us.” The protesters erected barricades and lit
several tires on fire, producing smoke that could be seen for several
kilometers. They issued demands for the armed forces to leave the area, and for
the release of those who had been detained in connection to the prior day’s
events, as well as for the return of the bodies of the six dead civilians. The
protesters blocked the highway for five hours, after which they were forcefully
dispersed by over 1,000 state police using tear gas.

Puebla is the third poorest state in Mexico, with two-thirds of
its population, or 3.5 million people, living below the poverty line. According
to the Secretariat of Social Development (Sedesol), over 45 percent of the
population of Palmerito has not completed a primary education, and eight out of
10 people are living in poverty, including one out of four in extreme poverty.

Palmerito is in an area of high activity byhuachicolerosknown as the Red Triangle (Triángulo
Rojo), which includes six Puebla municipalities, through which 40 percent of
all oil that reaches Mexico City passes each day. According to Pemex, there
have been over 17,000 cases of oil siphoning from January 2014 to February of
this year, which has cost the government about 160 million pesos (about US$8.4
million). Pemex claims over 2,800 illegal oil taps occurred in the state of
Puebla during this period, the highest in the country.

Pemex workers and local police are often complicit in the illegal
oil tapping operations. Guadalupe Correa-Cabrera, an associate professor at the
University of Texas, told the newspaperPeriódico Central: “The
illegal tapping cannot be perpetrated by drug traffickers alone. There must be
people who worked or are working for Pemex. And with the express agreement of
management, this is not a new development, but something that has been
documented since [former Mexican president] Vicente Fox.” In a recent case, two
out of the fourhuachicolerosdetained by federal police on April 6
in Guanajuato were Pemex workers, while seven police were detained in Puebla
last September for collaborating with thehuachicoleros.

Andres Manuel López Obrador (AMLO), who is currently leading the
polls for the 2018 Mexican presidential elections, spoke about the events a few
days later and continued to claim he was against corruption in Mexico. “Thehuachicolerois not just about siphoning the pipes.
They steal gasoline from the refineries, where there are pipes, and this has to
do with the authorities. They are ahuachicol, but a white-collarhuachicol.”

On May 7, AMLO issued a call for the “left parties” in
Mexico—including the Party of Democratic Revolution (PRD), the Workers Party
(PT) and the Citizen’s Movement— to join forces with his party, Morena
(Movement of National Regeneration), against the “corrupt parties.” For all his
posturing as an enemy of the “mafia in power,” he neglected to mention that Eva
Cadena, a Morena candidate in the state of Veracruz, was recently captured on
video receiving over one million pesos (over US$52,000) from unreported sources
on three separate encounters, allegedly to finance AMLO’s campaign and as
payment for pushing a favorable law in the local congress. As for the PRD, it
was recently revealed that its national president owns a $1 million luxury
apartment in Miami.

While the Mexican government quickly mobilized to defend Pemex’s
profits, its citizens continue to bear the cost of the 20 percent gas hike in
January known as thegasolinazo. The price of a
basic basket of goods increased by 8 percent in the month of April, and families
in the lowest two deciles of earners now allocate over 80 percent of their
income to food alone, compared to 10 percent for the wealthiest Mexicans. The
unaffordability of gasoline sets the stage for thehuachicolerosto sell it at cheaper prices on the
illegal market while bringing in additional income for their impoverished
communities.

The Mexican ruling class responded to the events in Palmerito by
calling for the further militarization of the country. Enrique Ochoa Reza, the
leader of the ruling Institutional Revolutionary Party (PRI), quickly renewed
calls for declaring an extraordinary session of the Chamber of Deputies to pass
theInterior Security
Law.

Among the events commemorating the 1862 Battle of Puebla,
popularly known ascinco de mayo, Mexican
President Enrique Peña Nieto spoke before the armed forces alongside the
secretary of defense, the secretary of the marines, and the secretary of
finance. He restated his commitment to “support them, protect them, and see
that their dignity and rights are respected at all times.” Meanwhile, the
governor of Puebla announced plans to deploy another two thousand military
personnel, two helicopters, and armored vehicles to the state.

IMMANENT COLLAPSE THE PENA-NIETO
REGIME AND FALL TO THE LA RAZA DRUG CARTELS ON AMERICAN OPEN AND UNDEFENDED BORDERS.

More significant still, a
former Mexican official, Jorge Castañeda, threatened to unleash
Mexican cartels onto the U.S. to retaliate for deportations of illegal
immigrants and the construction of a border wall.